Wake Forest in London

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We woke up about 3 am North Carolina time to get ready for the day. We had a pretty good breakfast with croussiants, pastries, cereal and I even tried some carrot juice. All were pretty good, but breakfast will be better tomorrow, sans carrot juice ;-). We got up with the Wake Forest kiddies at the Worrell House yesterday, so we decided we pay them a visit after they were done with class at around noon so we had a little bit of time to kill.
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It was about 9, so we headed to the tube station to buy our 3 day passes. It ended up costing around 10 bucks a day, which isn't too terribly bad for such an expensive city. We then took the train for Hyde Park Corner to head down to Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the gaurd. It rained on us while we watched the guys in furry hats do their thing, but we still got some pretty decent pictures and had a good time poking fun at the yelling Japanese tourists.

From Buckingham Palace we headed down the Mall back to Picadily Circus where we got on the tube and made our way to Chalk Farm in the Hampstead area. After about 30 minutes we were ringing the bell at the Worrell House. It's a great old house built in 1875 with a beautiful garden out back. Fortunately we made it just as everyone was getting out of class. Dan and Ellen were there but apparently we had just missed Chad. While our freinds took showers we walked around the Chalk Farm area and found a Tresco to get a bite to eat. I got a bacon, chicken, and avacado sandwich out of the cooler and topped it off with some Smarties. Pretty good for 3 pounds.

We headed back to the house to hang out with Ellen (who wasn't feeling well) for a while. We looked at all of Dan's pictures and heard about all the fun stuff they'd been doing while in London. We got invited to attend the Globe Theatre and see a rendetion of Tempest, however procuring tickets was a little nerve-wracking. Christina found a ticket immediately as a nice girl sold it to her for face value. I joined the standby line where I waited patiently and was lucky to grab a groundling ticket with my friends. The theater was an amazing replica of every etching and drawing I'd ever seen of the place. Three speaking actors comprised the cast and did a great job shifting characters. I'm a little rough on the plot of the Tempest, so I think I'll re-read it soon but regardless the expreience was amazing. The actors played to us poor folk on the ground and really put on a great show-- but it was rough on the feet standing for two and a half hours straight.

After the play we were all starving-- it was around 10:15 so most of the pubs weren't serving food. We headed back up to the Worrell House and stopped by a grocery for dinner. This time we had frozen pizzas and every one shared local snack and junk food in the house's monstorous kitchen. I liked the mango spicy crisps, personally. I also grabbed some smarties (they are so freakin good) Unfortunatly we had to say farewell to our friends rather quickly because the tube closes at around 12:30 am.

We got on the tube and headed back down to Kennsington but we wanted to change three times because the trip would be shorted and might save us some time. We were wrong however and got stranded one stop from home. A twenty minute walk got us home and we got to see some of Notting Hill, so everything worked out.

We're meeting some folks down at the Tower of London at noon tomorrow so we'd better hit the sack!

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[Aunt Eileen]

Okay, what are smarties?